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Rose Ayling-Ellis’s year in TV: ‘After Strictly, people told me they wouldn’t be upset if they had a deaf child’

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
2 Min Read
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You made a huge impact on Strictly in 2021 – how did you feel when you were asked to take part?I felt really privileged, but it was also scary because they had never had anyone like me on the show – it would be a completely new experience for them and for me. But I’m so glad I said yes. I didn’t know the reaction to Symphony would be that big [Rose and Giovanni performed a Couple’s Choice dance...

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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty review – Adam McKay’s basketball drama lacks magic

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
4 Min Read
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This brash new show (Sky Atlantic) sets out its stall right away, announcing that it will be “a dramatisation of certain facts and events”, while making it clear that it is allowing plenty of wiggle room for interpretation. Those certain facts and events involve the rise and rise, in the 1980s, of the LA Lakers and its star players, who came to define not just basketball but an entire cultural...

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Evan Rachel Wood’s Marilyn Manson doc shows the messy timeline of healing

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
7 Min Read
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There’s a running theme in Phoenix Rising, the two-part documentary on Evan Rachel Wood’s story of domestic and sexual abuse by shock rocker Marilyn Manson, of evidence. Wood, a 34-year-old actor, has old photos from the early stages of her relationship with Manson, whom she met as an 18-year-old in 2006 (he was 37) – cherubic and teenage before, atrophied and vacant after. The film selects from...

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Bob Saget’s fractures possibly caused by falling on carpeted floor

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
3 Min Read
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Fractures around Bob Saget’s eye sockets and bleeding around his brain were possibly caused by the comedian hitting “something hard, covered by something soft”, such as a carpeted floor, according to a report released on Tuesday that provided more details of the death of the TV star. The 65-year-old star of Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos was found by a hotel security officer on his...

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Pieces of Her review – Toni Collette is a mum with a murderous past in this fun spy saga

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
3 Min Read
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Such is the tasty question posed by Pieces of Her, a new Netflix thriller based on the 2018 Karin Slaughter bestseller. It seems unlikely that this is the first adaptation for television of Slaughter – who has been banging out addictive crime novels to great acclaim for the last 21 years, but it does seem to be the case. The Grant County and Will Trent series are in development but have not yet...

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Memories, manipulation and murder: a true crime docuseries tests the form

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
7 Min Read
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Mind Over Murder, a new six-part documentary series on HBO, has all the elements one would expect from a true crime show: a shocking and grotesque murder, a dubious and protracted police investigation and divergent theories as to what happened. There are first-person interviews and archival footage, criminal records and old newspaper headlines – but Mind Over Murder, from One Child Nation...

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Mick Jagger: My Life As a Rolling Stone review – the singer would hate this documentary

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
5 Min Read
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Very few men can work a front-lacing skin-tight jumpsuit. Certainly not without getting their nipples caught or their beer gut stretching the satinet unbecomingly. Or, indeed, without the ensemble suggesting an accident in a sausage factory. Early on in My Life As a Rolling Stone (BBC Two) we see Mick Jagger before a 1970s gig, tightening the laces on his jumpsuit across his chest – snake hipped...

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Gary Waldhorn obituary

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
6 Min Read
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Gary Waldhorn, who has died aged 78, played some political high flyers on television in his time – Caulaincourt, the diplomat and Second Empire loyalist, in Napoleon and Love (1974), and the raffish society diarist Chips Channon in Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978) – but his true talent lay in a curious ability to be pompous, boring and funny all at the same time. This was most famously demonstrated...

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The Crown’s jewels stolen in Yorkshire raid on TV show’s vehicles

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
2 Min Read
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Antique props used during filming of the Netflix TV series The Crown have been stolen in an overnight raid in South Yorkshire. Valuables worth up to £150,000 were taken from three vans. They were to be used in scenes starring Imelda Staunton as the Queen. One of the props reportedly stolen was a replica of a rare Fabergé egg which was acquired by the Queen’s grandfather, George V, in 1933. The...

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Bel-Air review – this confused, joyless Fresh Prince remake has no reason to exist

By Olivia Wilson
In Culture
4 Min Read
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Bel-Air is a reboot with its own remarkable origin story. In 2019, the independent film-maker Morgan Cooper had the audacity to make a trailer for an imaginary new version of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, reshaping the 1990s sitcom as a tough, Ryan Coogler-style drama. Cooper might have dreamed that the clip would go viral and that the show would actually be made, with him still on board directing...

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